[Phpmyadmin-devel] Column reordering

[Aris Feryanto]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
> 
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Aris Feryanto <aris_feryanto at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>>  From: Tyron Madlener <tyronx at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>>  On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> 
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>   I am also wondering how to "publicize" these two new 
> features
>>>  (how to
>>>>   make  more apparent that these are available).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>  Ideas:
>>>  - A dragging indicator like gmail emails have on their left end
>>>  - A border around each column that fades in and out when hovering over
>>>  - When pma db is available, a speech bubble pointing at the columns
>>>  explaining the new feature (which appears only one time)
>>>  - 'Tip of the day' or 'Did you know?' - Box on the pma 
> main
>>>  window
>> 
>>  Good ideas. Another idea: how about small popup balloon when hovering table 
> header?
>>  (like in http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/)
> 
> Indeed, that's a good idea.
> On that apple site, it looks nice how that shadow around the element
> appears while dragging. Maybe that's possible for the column dragging
> too?

This is rather complicated. I checked the site and found that every columns is built in its own div, so it's easy to animate one column at once. While, in phpMyAdmin browse-mode, what we have is a <table> structure.


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Aris Feryanto